CVE-2015-2922

low
Published 2015-05-27 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.3
VIR risk
3.3

Description

The ndisc_router_discovery function in net/ipv6/ndisc.c in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in the Linux kernel before 3.19.6 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2922

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.19.6

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debiansidfixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.16.7-ckt9-1
linux linux-kernelaffected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
fedora fedora20affected
fedora fedora21affected
fedora fedora22affected

References

CWEs

CWE-17

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.